MAMMOTH in a Sentence

Learn MAMMOTH from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for MAMMOTH, such as:

1. The problem is beginning to assume mammoth proportions.
2. Neanderthal man was able to kill woolly mammoths and bears.
3. She looked at Mrs. Swithin as if she had been a dinosaur or a very diminutive mammoth.
4. Last week in Nature, scientists reported major progress in sequencing the genome of woolly mammoths.

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mammoth
 a.  gigantic; of great comparative size
Classic Sentence:
1  She looked at Mrs. Swithin as if she had been a dinosaur or a very diminutive mammoth.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
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Example Sentence:
1  The problem is beginning to assume mammoth proportions.
2  Cleaning up the city-wide mess is going to be a mammoth task.
3  To try to memorize every word on this vocabulary list would be a mammoth undertaking; take on projects that are more manageable in size.
4  Last week in Nature, scientists reported major progress in sequencing the genome of woolly mammoths.
5  Neanderthal man was able to kill woolly mammoths and bears.